Ornamental display material



June 21, 1938. w. VENNER ORNAMENTAL DISPLAY MATERIAL 2 Shets-Sheet 1 Filed "arch 2, 195a I INVENTOR.

V BY ATTORNEY) June 21, 1938. w. VENNER ORNAMENTAL DISPLAY MATERIAL Filed March 2, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENIOR.

144M V BY g m ww 'ATTORNEYS LuL! Patented June 21, was

UNITED STATES "PATENT OFFICE 10 Claim.

This invention relates to ornamental display material and more specifically to corrugated display material.

' This application is a continuation-in-part of my co-pending application Serial No. 107,786,

filed October 2'7, 1936.

In general, it is an object of the invention to provide an article of the character described, which will efficiently perform the purposes for which it is intended, which is simple and economical of construction, which can be expeditiously, conveniently and safely manipulated, and which can be readily manufactured and assembled.

Another object of the invention is to provide material which has attention-attracting material applied thereto and which may be folded without danger of the applied material falling off from the base material and especially where the applied material is held to the base material by an adhesive and where the applied material consists of a multiplicity of units, each more or less unfoldable and each separately attached; to provide such an article of manufacture of underlying corrugated material; and to provide such an article on which the applied material is arranged in a design.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious andwill in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims. I

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a surface of an article embodying one form of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the article shown in Fig. 1 and taken along the line 22;

Fig. 3 is a view, similar to Fig. 1, of a modification of the article shown in Fig. 1;

Figs. 4 and 5 are views, similar to Fig. 3, of modifications of the underlying material of the article shown in Fig. 1;

l Figs. 6 and 7 are views, similar to Fig. l, of

modifications of the article shown in Fig. 1;

Figs. 8 and 9 are cross-sections of the articles shown in Figs. 6 and '7; and

Fig. 10 is a plan view of a surface of an article showing different areas thereof at successive stages in the manufacture in accordance with the invention.

It has been known heretofore to attach many small pieces of attention-attracting material by means of adhesive to a supporting layer of ma- 5 terial. They have been sometimes so positioned as to form, in theaggregate, various designs. However, there has always been the great drawback that the article as a whole could not be folded or bent or even rolled into a cylin- 10 der without causing the small pieces or particles to interfere with each other in folds whereby the particles along the folds were cracked oil. This was due in part also to the cracking of the adhesive in the folds. This was particularly bad 15 where the supporting layer was stiff. Aslong as the article was small there was not as much trouble.

In window displays and for other purposes, it is desirable that single, large pieces of the 20 material be available. They have to be shipped to the place where they are to be used and during shipping they must be reduced in size. The present invention contemplates an article which may be made with any desired surface area and 25 which may be rolled up with substantially no 7 loss of the adhesively attached particles or at least with no more loss than would normally occur under careful handling if it were maintained fiat.

This new advantageous property is obtained by providing the supporting-layer with portions which deform when the article is bent and which do not have originally or at any time attached particles thereon. There are therefore no for- 35 tuitous, irregular cracks, obviously arising from lost particles, along those portions. These portions which never have particles thereon may be regularly positioned and may be smaller than the remaining portions so that the observer whose 40 eye is caught by the color or glitter of the particles on the other portions does not notice but that the applied particles are as continuously applied as they are uniformly. Nevertheless, the uncovered portions are present and do provide 5 bending areas to be used when they are needed. Preferably these uncovered, bending areas extend from one end of the article to the other. Furthermore, they are made to coincide with portions of the supporting material which have 50 already been bent or deformed to some extent so that when the finished article is bent or-deformed, the principal change in shape or crowding takes place along those very portions. Thus, the underlying material may be corrugated and 55 the uncovered portions may lie along the troughs of the corrugations. When the article issub- Jected to a bending force, the hardened adhesive does not give or crack because there are present those other areas, e. g., the troughs, which, having already been deformedonce, are more ready to bend and do bend and so take up almost all of the added change in shape, leaving the adhesive much less if not entirely unstressed and unbroken.

In the drawings, ll denotes an article embodying this invention. The layer II, which is to support the applied particles, has deformations extending from side to side or end to end, as the case may be, assuming that the particles are to extend from one end to the other. It may or may not have a flat layer ll of material amxed beneath it. The deformations may be in the form of corrugations, straight, sinuous or otherwise, with troughs It as lower parts and ridges I8 as upper parts. Layer I2 may be of paper or other material which receives and retains deformations.

In Fig. 1, the corrugations are shown as straight, in Fig. 3 as curved. If desired, they may even be circular.

In cross-section, the corrugations may show any convenient shape. In Fig. 2 the troughs and ridges are semi-circular. The latter may be smaller than the former (see Fig. 4) Successive ridges may have different cross-sections (see Fig. 5) and may have different heights.

Adhesive is applied only to the ridges or troughs so that the uncovered parts, troughs and ridges, are free to take up all further deformation of the article as a whole. The adhesive is applied in any desired known fashion, for example by a stencil. It may be applied continuously from one end of each ridge to the other.

While the adhesive is still sticky, particles 20 are attached thereto. They may be of practically any material or color. They preferably contrast with layer I! in color and are of light weight and small dimensions. Confetti, ground pearl and colored sand may be used. Tinsel is particularly suitable because of its scintillating property. The surfaces of the particles are oriented in all directions.

In some cases, it may be desired to have the particles only on a part or parts of any one ridge (or trough). Nearby and remote ridges (or troughs) may be similarly treated so as to give, by means of these localized areas, a design (see Figs.-6-9). The designs may be indicia, letters, figures, pictures, etc. They are shown as applied to the ridges in Figs. 5 and 7 and to the troughs in Figs. 6 and 8.

Fig. 10 shows a fragmentary portion of corrugated material 35 having the usual series of elongated upstanding portions separated by a series of depressed portions and shows the result of successive steps taken to produce the ornaments inrelief and of dis-united elements. The portion 38 shows the original corrugated material without any ornamental figures. The portion 31 shows adhesive applied to localized areas of adjacent members of one of said series, the upstanding series or the depressed series, to simulate the letter O. The portion 38 shows finely divided material applied to an area to which adhesive has already been applied, and shows the completed product.

From the foregoing, it will be understood that an article made as described may present a surface apparently covered with glittering tinsel but which has long transverse strips which take up the bending as the article is rolled up. Particulariyisthissowhen thetinselisontheridges and the article is rolled with the tinsel on the outside. The particles or tinsel may have a design of continuously parallel lines or of geometrically similar lines some or-all of which'are discontinuous. In any event, the observer notes the design without his eyes being distracted by the uncovered portions which extend right through the design.

As before-mentioned, the supporting layer l2 may be of a color contrasting with the applied particles. It may have a design applied to it before the adhesive and particles are applied. The design which the particles form when taken together may or may not be similar to the first mentioned design. If they do not form such a similar design, the underlying design can be recognized nevertheless. In some cases, the underlying design may be supplemented by the design of the particles. Thus, if the layer I 2 is of blue, there may be printed thereon a white moon and/or trees. The tinsel may extend vertically in rows or strips, as before described, across and beyond the underlying design, giving the effect of falling snow, or it may be only in those portions of the rows which are in registry with the moon and/0r trees and so intensify the design of the latter.

Since certain changes may be made in the above article and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A difiusively reflected composite article of manufacture of sheet-like form, comprising a flat layer and an integrally connected corrugated layer of material, the upstanding portions only of the corrugations having adhesive applied thereto in localized areas and in dis-united and spaced linear strips thereby simulating design forms, said article having flakes of tinsel applied over said adhesive, the portions of the corrugations intermediate said upstanding portions being plain, each of said design forms having a plurality of cross-sectionally convex strips which jointly coact to produce said design simulations in full relief above said article, said display article being rollable without cracking said glued surface.

2. A diifusively reflecting composite article of manufacture of sheet-like form, comprising a flat layer and an integrally connected corrugated layer of material, the upstanding portions only of the corrugations having adhesive applied thereto in disunited and spaced linear strips thereby simulating design forms, said article having tinsel applied over said adhesive, the portions of the corrugations intermediate said upstanding portions being plain, each of said design forms having a plurality of cross-sectionally convex strips which jointly coact to produce said design simulations in full relief above said article, said display article being rollable without cracking said glued surface.

3. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a series of adjacent, similar linear deformations, each linear element of each deformation extending across said article and having respectively upper and lower parts, adhesive applied only to the upper parts of said deformations and finely divided material secured to said adhesive, said upper parts, covered with said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than said uncovered lower parts and said article, when bent along the general direction of said deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in said lower parts whereby said adhesive and said material secured thereto remain affixed to said article during such bending.

4. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a series of adjacent straight deformations, each deformation extending across said article and having respectively upper and lower parts, adhesive applied to only the upper parts of said deformations, and finely divided material secured to said adhesive, said upper parts, covered with a said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than said uncovered lower parts and said article, when bent along, the general direction of said deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in said lower parts whereby said adhesive and said material secured thereto remain aflixed to said article during such bending.

5. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a series of sinuous deformations, each deformation extending across said article and having respecs tively upper and lower parts, adhesive applied to only the upper parts of said deformations, and finely divided material secured to said adhesive, said upper parts, covered with said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than said uncovered lower parts and said article, when'bent along the general direction of said deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in saidlower parts whereby said adhesive and said material secured thereto remain ailixed to said article during such bending.

6. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a series of deformations, each deformation extending acrou said article and having respectively upper and lower parts, successive deformations having cross-sections of different shapes, adhesive applied to only the upper parts of said deformations, andfinely divided material secured to said adhesive, said upper parts, covered with said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than said uncovered lower parts and said article, when bent along the general direction of said deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in said lower parts whereby said adhesive and said material secured thereto remain aflixed to said article during such bending.

7. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a layer of corrugated material, adhesive applied only to the ridges of the corrugations of said material, and finely divided scintillating material secured to said adhesive, said ridges, covered with said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than the grooves of said corrugations and said article, when bent along the general direction of said, deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in said grooves whereby said adhesive and said material secured thereto remain affixed to said article during such bending. 8. An article of manufacture which has a sheet-like form which may be given a small radius of curvature and which may be bent to form an acute dihedral angle and comprising a layerof corrugated material, adhesive applied only to the ridges of the corrugations of said material, and tinsel secured to said adhesive, said ridges, covered with said adhesive and said material, being more rigid than the grooves of said corrugations and said article, when bent along the general direction of said deformations, being adapted to change its shape principally in said grooves whereby said adhesive and said tinsel secured thereto remain affixed to said article portions forming discontinuous designs, and tinsel secured to said adhesive. 

